Mahendra R. Gupta, PhD, dean of Olin Business School
and the Geraldine J. and Robert L. Virgil Professor of Accounting and
Management, serves a burger to a student during the 19th annual Olin
Cookout Aug. 27 at Simon Hall. The tasty tradition brings the Olin
community together, with faculty and staff serving barbecued chicken,
pork and hamburgers to hungry students.
The Record recently learned of the death of Michael A. Weinberg, PhD, a former associate professor of history in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. Weinberg died of heart disease April 23, 2013, at his home in Belfast, Maine. He was 83.
Washington University Orthopedics is opening a walk-in clinic for joggers, cyclists, high school athletes and weekend warriors who are injured outside of business hours.
An odd feature of nerve cells may be
linked to several forms of inherited intellectual disability, Azad Bonni, MD, PhD, (pictured) and other School of Medicine researchers have learned. Further research eventually may help in the development of drugs to treat intellectual disability.
Victoria “Vicky” Holtschlag, a laboratory manager in the School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology and Immunology and at Siteman Cancer Center, died Sunday, June 30, 2013, from an illness. She was 58.
“I have a candidate for the author of the most interesting contemporary English sentences,” wrote Dan Chiasson in The New Yorker last spring. The candidate? “The American poet Carl Phillips.” On Thursday, Sept. 5, Phillips, professor of English and African-American Studies in Arts & Sciences, will launch the Writing Program’s fall Reading Series.
Washington University in St. Louis is launching a
new Climate Change Initiative aimed at expanding scientific
research, education and public understanding of global climate change. A
signature initiative of the International Center for Advanced Renewable
Energy and Sustainability, the initiative will be led by Peter
H. Raven, PhD, the George Engelmann Professor of Botany Emeritus and President
Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
The United States must take military action against Syria, even though it may not deter Syria or other “belligerent nations” from using weapons of mass destruction, suggests Krister Knapp, PhD, a senior lecturer in the Department of History in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis.
Richard M. Kurtz, PhD, associate professor emeritus of psychology in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest on Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. He was 76 and residing in Cincinnati.
Bernard Becker, MD, professor emeritus of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, died Wednesday Aug. 28, 2013, after a long illness. He was 93.
